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Restaurant search website Zomato has announced that it has suffered a major security breach, resulting in the theft of a user database containing 17 million users’ names, email addresses and passwords.
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Restaurant search website Zomato has announced that it has suffered a major security breach, resulting in the theft of a user database containing 17 million users’ names, email addresses and passwords. The news comes as it is reported that a hacker calling themselves “nclay” is claiming to offer the database for sale on the dark […]… Read More
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The WannaCry ransomware predictably dominates the discussion in our podcast this week, but that’s not the only security story that caught our eye.
Computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault are joined on the podcast this week by spec… Continue reading Smashing Security #21: WannaCry – who’s to blame?
Details of 77 million students, teachers and parents are thought to have leaked on the web.
Continue reading Edmodo confirms hackers breached its education platform, stole user data and hashed passwords
Digital signature service DocuSign has discovered that hackers managed to breach its systems and gain access to a system that allowed attackers to email malware to customers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading DocuSign admits hackers accessed its customer email database, sent out malware
Welcome to the post-WannaCry world, where every computer user understands the importance of creating secure backups and applying security patches in a timely fashion.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Apple users advised to update their software now, as new security patches released
The chiefs of the United States’s intelligence agencies have publicly stated that they wouldn’t feel comfortable running Kaspersky anti-virus software on their computers.
Would be nice if they explained why…
Continue reading US intelligence chiefs don’t trust Kaspersky. But why?
Sorry I haven’t written anything about WannaCry (also known as WCry or WCrypt or Wana Decryptor) yet.
WannaCry burst onto the scene spectacularly today after NHS hospitals across the UK ground to a standstill, as the ransomware encrypted files and cau… Continue reading WannaCry ransomware hits systems worldwide
Law firms, PR agencies, newswires, accountants… all manner of firms need to ensure that they are working hard to secure the information entrusted to them by their corporate clients, and keep it out of unauthorised hands.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Tough luck if you’re taking an expensive laptop with you on a trip from Europe to the States, and wouldn’t dream of checking it into the airplane’s hold.
You might have to stay at home.
Continue reading Reports claim US will ban laptops in all cabins of flights from Europe